Off-grid cottage in the Swedish woods

It is now over a year since I left Stockholm for the countryside and finally I found myself a nice little cottage that I can improve with solar cells and a proper garden. I have a well nearby but no electricity and only a composting toilet. At the moment I will mainly use it as a summer home since the Swedish winter will make the road mostly inaccessible and the cottage doesn't have any proper isolation. Propane stove and fireplace as well as free fire wood is a big plus =) But it has been empty for 2 years so there's plenty to fix.

Lake nearby

The surrounding area is really beautiful summertime, with lots of old oaks, meadows and a not to small lake with plenty of fish.

My puppy love, Taiga, a Scandinavian Hound

And it's the perfect place to let a puppy roam around. I named him after the great boreal forest of the north, the Taiga, mighty and wild. He is already a really fast runner, no wonder, the husky part in him (mix between vorsteh/alaskan husky). A working dog used for pulling things, but it's too early for that yet.

Photos of your off-grid cottage and surroundings look remarkably like familiar scenes of Northern Wisconsin, in the USA. The upper Midwest was settled by Scandinavian and German immigrants (among others) during the 19th and early 20th centuries, so perhaps the similarities are not merely coincidental. The forests look the same. Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota have thousands of clear-water glacial lakes, formed (like the Great Lakes, themselves) in the last ice age. The similarities between your region and those I am familiar with here are remarkable.